Anno's Italy

by Mitsumasa Anno

Book Overview

Scenes of Italian daily life of the past and present are interwoven with the theme of the life of Christ as depicted in famous Italian religious paintings. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0529055597
• ISBN13: 9780529055590
• Release Date: March 1980
• Publisher: William Collins
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 4 and higher

Customer Reviews

I wish I could give this book 8 stars

Before I had children, I wouldn't have appreciated the value of wordless books, but you cannot see one of Mitsumasa Anno's beautiful works without becoming an enthusiastic devotee of the genre in general, and Anno in particular. It is astonishing that these are difficult to come by -- at least one should be in every child's library!As in other Anno works, an anonymous Everyman is seen in each two-page text-less illustration. In this book, the traveler begins his trek in the empty countryside of Italy, buys a horse and rides through progressively more populated scenes -- and what scenes they are! Filled with literary allusions, mini-stories, children playing, panorama and touching detail -- all at once! It would take a long time to describe even one illustration, let alone the whole book, but the content is rich and evocative. Your child will appreciate this work at various levels at different times, and you will make new discoveries yourself.These books are not to be missed, and Anno's Italy is especially beautiful.